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1 你们要在锡安吹角,在我吹出大声。国中的居民都要发颤;因为耶和华的日子将到,已经临近。

2 那日是黑暗、幽冥、密、乌黑的日子,好像晨光铺满岭。有一队蝗虫(原文是民)又大又强;从来没有这样的,以直到万也必没有。

3 他们前面如烧灭,面如火焰烧尽。未到以前,伊甸园;过去以,成了荒凉的旷野;没有一样能躲避他们的。

4 他们的形状如,奔跑如兵。

5 顶蹦跳的响声,如车辆的响声,又如焰烧碎秸的响声,好像强盛的民摆阵预备打仗。

6 他们一来,众民伤恸,脸都变色。

7 他们如勇士奔跑,像战士爬城;各都步行,不乱队伍。

8 彼此并不拥挤,向前各行其,直闯兵器,不偏左右。

9 他们蹦上城,蹿上,爬上房屋进入窗户如同盗贼。

10 他们一来,动,日月昏暗,宿无光。

11 耶和华在他军旅前发声,他的队伍甚;成就他命的是强盛者。因为耶和华的日子而可畏,谁能当得起呢?

12 耶和华:虽然如此,你们应当禁食、哭泣、悲哀,一心归向我。

13 你们要撕裂心肠,不撕裂衣服。归向耶和华─你们的;因为他有恩典,有怜悯,不轻易发怒,有丰盛的慈爱,并且後悔不降所说的灾。

14 或者他悔,留下馀福,就是留下献给耶和华─你们的素祭和奠祭,也未可知。

15 你们要在锡安吹角,分定禁食的日子,宣告严肃会。

16 聚集众民,使会众自洁:招聚老者,聚集孩童和吃奶的;使新郎出离洞房,新妇出离内室。

17 事奉耶和华的祭司要在廊子和祭坛中间哭泣,耶和华啊,求你顾惜你的百姓,不要使你的产业受羞辱,列邦管辖他们。为何容列国的人:他们的在哪里呢?

18 耶和华就为自己的发热心,怜恤他的百姓。

19 耶和华应允他的百姓:我必赐给你们五谷、新酒,和油,使你们饱足;我也不再使你们受列国的羞辱;

20 却要使北方来的军队远离你们,将他们赶到乾旱荒废之:前队赶入东,後队赶入西;因为他们所行的大恶(原文作事),臭气上升,腥味腾空。

21 地土啊,不要惧;要欢喜快乐,因为耶和华行了大事。

22 田野的走啊,不要惧;因为,旷野的草发生,树木结果,无花果树、葡萄也都效

23 锡安的民哪,你们要快乐,为耶和华─你们的欢喜;因他赐你们合宜的秋雨,为你们降甘霖,就是秋雨、春雨,和先前一样。

24 禾场必满了麦子,酒醡与油醡必有新酒和油盈溢。

25 我打发到你们中间的军队,就是蝗虫、蝻子、蚂蚱、剪,那些年所的,我要补还你们。

26 你们必多而得饱足就赞美为你们行奇妙事之耶和华─你们的名。我的百姓必永远不至羞愧

27 你们必知道我是在以色列中间,又知道我是耶和华─你们的;在我以外并无别。我的百姓必永远不致羞愧

28 ,我要将我的灵浇灌凡有血气的。你们的儿女要预言;你们的老年人要做异梦,少年人要见异象。

29 在那些日子,我要将我的灵浇灌我的仆人和使女。

30 下,我要显出奇事,有血,有,有烟柱。

31 日头要变为黑暗月亮要变为血,这都在耶和华而可畏的日子未到以前。

32 到那时候,凡求告耶和华名的就必得;因为照耶和华的,在锡安耶路撒冷必有逃脱的人,在剩下的人中必有耶和华所召的。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 331

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331. And behold, there was a great earthquake. This symbolizes the state of the church among those people completely changed, and their terror.

Earthquakes symbolize changes in the state of the church because the earth symbolizes the church (no. 285), and because in the spiritual world, when the state of the church is corrupted somewhere and a change is made, an earthquake occurs. And because this presages the people's destruction, they are in terror. For lands in the spiritual world are in appearance like lands in the natural world (no. 260). But because lands there, like everything else in that world, have a spiritual origin, therefore those lands change in accordance with the state of the church among the inhabitants upon them, and when the state of the church is corrupted, the lands tremble and quake, even sinking down and being moved from their location.

That this is what happened when the Last Judgment was imminent and taking place may be seen in the short work, The Last Judgment.

It can be seen from this what quakes, shakings and removals of the earth symbolize in the following places:

...there will be pestilences, famines, and earthquakes in various places. (Matthew 24:7, cf. Mark 13:8, Luke 21:11)

(These things are said there of the Last Judgment.)

...in the fire of My wrath I have spoken, if in that day there is not a great earthquake... so that... every person on the face of the earth shakes... and the mountains are overthrown... (Ezekiel 38:18-20).

...there was a great earthquake, such as had not occurred since people came on the earth. (Revelation 16:18)

...I will shake the heavens, and the earth will be moved out of her place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts... (Isaiah 13:13)

...the foundations of the earth are shaken... The earth is shaken exceedingly...(because) its transgression is heavy upon it... (Isaiah 24:18-20)

The earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the hills..., because He was angry. (Psalms 18:7)

The mountains quake before (Jehovah)...and the rocks are overthrown... (Nahum 1:5-6)

So likewise in other places, as in Jeremiah 10:10; 49:21, Joel 2:10, Haggai 2:6-7, Revelation 11:19, and elsewhere.

These things, however, must be understood as taking place in the spiritual world, and not in the natural world. In the natural world they symbolize such things as stated above.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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#63 Making the Invisible Visible | The Function of Scripture's Imagery

Napsal(a) Jonathan S. Rose

Title: Making the Invisible Visible: The Function of Scripture's Imagery (Naked Mole Rat)

Topic: Word

Summary: We used a bizarre analogy of naked mole rats to talk about how little we experience without the Lord's help. We particularly focus on baptism, the blood of Christ, repentance, and the remission of sins.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Romans 3:25
Ephesians 1
Colossians 1:14
Matthew 26:27-28
Acts of the Apostles 2:38; 5:30-31
Mark 1:4
Luke 2:3, 24-46
Acts of the Apostles 26:15-18
Colossians 1:9
Romans 1:19; 11:33
1 Corinthians 2:9; 13:9-12
Ephesians 1:17-18; 3:8-10
1 Timothy 1:16-17
John 1:14-18
Joel 2:23, 28-32

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Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 10/19/2011. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com